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When a disease-causing pathogen such as a flu virus is already adapted to infect a particular animal species, it may ...

Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), ...

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From mysterious artifacts to giant megaliths, discoveries that promise to reveal our past have completely baffled the ...

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The authors present convincing evidence for interbreeding between domestic cattle and wild aurochs since the Neolithic period, although the evidence ... genetic basis of trait variation of ...

They have large antlers weighing up to 5 kilograms that can be 1.15 meters long. Antlers sometimes have as many as 20 tines ...